New guy with lots of questions

[carls]

Truthfully, I am interested in the Amiga strictly for it's games.

In that case I'd recommend you to get an emulator package, say Amiga Forever (http://www.amigaforever.com/) which emulates basically anything from an A1000 or A500 up to an A4000. It will run fine on a modern PC and you avoid the hassle of getting an Amiga, finding space for it and findning floppies and transfer games onto them.

[carls]

@Hyperspeed

Hehe
I just saw another thread by ArchM and yeah, he definitely needs the real deal.

I myself own four Amigas, so no need to panic. Although nothing beats WinUAE/Amiga Forever for nostalgia in a cramped apartment.

[carls]

tonyvdb wrote:
The drawback with Amiga forever (That I do have by the way) is that not all games/programs run properly and sometimes need alot of fiddling of the settings to make work.

Get and Amiga 4000 or 1200 and you will be a happy camper :-D

I'm willing to bet you'll have a harder time getting the games to work on an A4000 than in UAE. But yeah, nothing beats the feeling of real hardwware.

[carls]

magnetic wrote:
Carls

WTF? Don't you understand how COOL it is to have  a REAL Amiga and not a cheap x86 box running emu??

No, I own four Amigas because I hate them and want them to rot away in a dark corner of my basement.

But seriously, if you're just going to do some retro-gaming every now and again WinUAE is just a lot mor hassle-free.

It's kind of like how I have no problem with watching C64 demos in VICE, while at the same time, real C64 sceners try to code their demos so that they won't work in VICE

[carls]

ArchM wrote:
I just love collecting too much to settle for an emulator.  I like the feel of looking at the system, or holding the controller/joystick and sitting on my couch.  

I'd love to see some photos of your collection.

Also - and this might sound patronizing, but I assure you it isn't - how old are you? I'm just curious since you haven't heard about the Amiga.

[carls]

ArchM wrote:
I am 26 now.  Now, I have HEARD of Amiga, however I had no idea what it/they actually were/are.  I always assumed that there were some kind of Atari type system.  I was always into video games, but I only ever had access to what I saw on the TV, which was pretty much the standard consoles.  I had NO IDEA there was so much to offer from these machines.

Well, I'm probably going to get bashed for saying this, but the Amiga and Atari are pretty much alike on many aspects. One of the key differences though, is the operating system. Atari's TOS simply cannot compare to AmigaOS.

Amiga was always one step ahead of Atari regarding sound and graphics performance until Atari released the Falcon 030, but that didn't matter much since they went bankrupt shortly after that.

Funny that you've never had more contact with Amigas though, we're the same age and Amigas were all the rage when I was a kid. People wanted them instead of consoles because the games were "free"  :roll: